Hannover Life Reassurance Company of America (“HLR America”), the North American life and health reinsurance subsidiary of Hannover Re Group, has appointed Keith Kennerly as vice president of structured health and financial solutions.
Most recently, Mr. Kennerly served as managing director for Aetna Inc., where he focused on reinsurance, securitization, strategic financial initiatives as well as capital markets for Aetna's corporate finance platform, including execution and management of medical loss ratio securitizations. Before joining Aetna Inc., Mr. Kennerly worked for Paladin Strategic Partners and prior to that he was a senior banker with Barclays Capital (formerly Lehman Brothers). Mr. Kennerly spent the majority of his career with Barclays Capital as a liquidity manager focused on structuring, marketing, and executing several large financing transactions for non-liquid and mortgage related assets, providing short term liquidity solutions as well as long term securitizations for the firm and its prime brokerage clients.
Mr. Kennerly received a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering from Drexel University and earned his MBA from The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania with a dual major in finance and strategic management.
In his role as vice president of structured health and financial solutions, Mr. Kennerly will be responsible for sourcing and originating new health financing opportunities for HLR America. Jeff Burt, the executive vice president of financial solutions commented, “We are excited to welcome Keith to our team and look forward to his contributions to the company.”
Mr. Kennerly will be based out of the New York office.
Learn more: www.hlramerica.com.
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